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248 
In writing to Advertisers mention Forest and Stream. 
there’s nothing like this back-lot prac- 
tice to induce that confident feeling. 
This quiet, self-contained type of 
shooting impresses a man, as nothing 
else will, with the importance of a 
properly adjusted trigger pull, a set 
of sights that can be seen easily and 
clearly against the average outdoor 
background, and with the necessity of 
having the butt-plate shaped so that 
the rifle is comfortable in use and 
steady when held. Some types of 
butts seem to catch and stick every 
time they come up. Others are never 
comfortable, some are homely as mud 
but have the comfortable and _ solid 
feeling of tramping in an old army 
shoe. No one ever thinks of feeling 
before setting it down. You just smash 
ahead and let follow what will be- 
cause past experience has shown that 
it is one part of the equipment that is 
not necessary to worry about. 
Broad, flat, and substantial design 
means as much on a rifle butt as it 
does on a shoe sole. It means a firm 
and secure foundation from which the 
moving object can be swung, and that 
is exactly how a flat, wide, comfortable 
rifle butt helps to align the sights. It 
comes up the same way every time, 
settles into place each shot alike, and 
then sticks there. Consequently you 
think only of directing the bullet—not, 
of how hard that butt is going to dig 
into your collar bone. 
There is no special reason for the 
back-lot range except regular practice 
and self-satisfaction. You never have 
to wait an hour for the other fellows 
to get through. It’s always your turn. 
You shoot when you feel like it, ar- 
range your own program, pull off your 
own stunts. And you don’t need to 
take a back seat for anyone. 
There is somehow a certain fascina- 
tion in going out by yourself, turning 
back the calendar two hundred years 
or so in your imagination if you care 
to, and for once in your life doing ex- 
actly what you please all the time. 
The man who is compelled by cir- 
cumstance to shoot alone or in small 
company, may never win the Wimble- 
don but he will have the satisfaction 
of knowing that he can do again what 
he has done once. And he has accom- 
plished what he has by his own efforts. 
I wouldn’t give the memories of the 
thousands of shots that I have fired 
in this manner for the memories of 
the big matches in which I have en- 
tered. There is a certain something 
that you can get when working or 
playing alone that one never finds in 
the roar of the crowd. 
The back-lot target range is many 
a man’s safety valve and inner shrine. 
You can always go there and get some 
part of what you want when you 
want it. 
Modern Trapping Methods 
(Continued from page 212) 
otter sections of the West today, al- 
though some parts of British Columbia 
are good. Naturally the farther north 
the trapper is located, the better qual- 
ity of fur he will take from his sets. 
If one has seen enough sign to indicate 
the presence of a family of otters, it 
will pay to keep tab on the animals and, 
once their habits are determined as to 
time of visitation, they may be shot 
with a rifle. 
ee otter is not particularly afraid 
of man so long as he has the pro- 
tection of the water, and for that reason 
will often approach voluntarily to with- 
in a comparatively short range. A rifle, 
not smaller than a .25 calibre, should be 
used, aiming to shoot for the head. 
An otter should never be shot in a swift 
or wide stream unless one has a boat 
or other craft handy, for the body will 
float downstream and become lost to the 
trapper forever. Shooting valuable 
fur-bearers for the mere sport of it is 
absolutely a dirty piece of business. 
This last fall, while auto-traveling 
through the western mountain country, 
looking over the territory with an eye 
for future trapping, we came upon a 
sight which made us mad, to say the 
least—a fine big otter, floating belly up 
in the water, his head smashed by a 
bullet from some deer hunter’s rifle. 
It had been too early for a fully prime 
skin, and the animal floated there in 
mute testimony of greedy acts perpe- 
trated in the name of sport. 
XCEPT under extraordinary con- 
ditions, we would not advise the use 
of any bait for otter trappmg other 
than fish, either fresh or foul. For 
scent, nothing can take the place of 
fish oil. Fish oil is nothing more or 
less than the juice from fish left in a 
warm place to “work.” The fish is cut 
into small pieces and put in a bottle. 
If done in summer-time the bottle is 
hung in the sun, if in winter, artificial 
heat must be employed to bring out the 
oil. | 
Playing and Netting Big 
Trout on the Fly 
(Continued from page 2138) 
If a fish should suddenly make a 
frantic leap in the air with the rod in 
the position named, it is hardly possible 
to have the rodtip lowered quick enough 
to save a smash on the leader. The 
farther away, the chances are better 
to save the fish—more so, if it runs in 
towards you, in that case, to keep a taut 
line the rod should be kept in the same 
It will identify you. 
